horror-struck

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suddenly overwhelmed or immobilized by horror

   The horror-struck witnesses stared at the wreckage in silence.

A compound of horror + struck, using struck in its older figurative sense of "suddenly and powerfully affected." It is parallel to compounds such as grief-stricken and thunderstruck.

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